For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

- Osbert Sitwell

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

- Osbert Sitwell

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser.

- Osbert Sitwell

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsess…

- Osbert Sitwell

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

- Osbert Sitwell

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the Ge…

- Osbert Sitwell

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

- Osbert Sitwell

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest.

- Osbert Sitwell

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

- Osbert Sitwell